Nicholas Evans (Author)

Nicholas Evans (born July 26, 1950 in Bromsgrove , Worcestershire , England ) is an English journalist and writer who wrote an international bestseller with the novel The Horse Whisperer .

Life

Evans lived in Africa for a while and then studied journalism at Oxford University . Today he lives in Devon (England) .

His novel The Horse Whisperer was for years an international bestseller and was founded in 1998 by Robert Redford filmed , who also plays the title role in the film.

In September 2008, Evans suffered severe poisoning from eating a mushroom dish with pointed hunched rock heads , when the sequelae of which he had to have a kidney transplant for his daughter in 2011 .

Novels

• The Horse Whisperer. 1995.
  • German: The horse whisperer. Translated from English by Bernhard Robben. Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-45749-1 ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 5 to June 9, 1996 , filmed in 1998 by and with Robert Redford ).
• The loop. 1998.
  • German: In the circle of the wolf. Bertelsmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-570-12296-4 .
• The smoke jumper. 2001.
  • German: fire jumpers. Goldmann, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-45824-2 .
• The Divide. 2005.
  • German: When the sky divides. Bertelsmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-00320-6 .
• The Brave. 2010.
  • German: The one we love most. Translated from the English by Susanne Schädlich . Rütten & Loening, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-352-00815-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Nicholas Evans in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Nicholas Evans at perlentaucher.de